ATI Adding Radeon HD 5670

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ATI has added a new card to their lineup, the Radeon HD 5670 will be another mid-range card in their current-generation of the 5000 series. The GPU will contend with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 in price, and like the other 5000 series cards, it’s capable of DirectX 11 and Eyefinity.

The card’s pricepoint will be sub-$100, making it one of the cheaper DirectX 11 cards out there. Of course, only about four games currently support DirectX 11, but it’ll be nice in the future. The card is also compatible with Windows 7 and offers ATI’s new ATI Stream technology.

ATI Stream helps speed up video transcoding and video playback features. While it may not be a huge future if you’re purely a gaming junkie, Stream should help Photoshop, Flash and Premier Pro users who do a lot of editing. All this, of course, is following the trend where GPUs are capable of doing more and more than just rendering video for gaming.

ATI’s Eyefinity is also supported in the 5670 card, which is support for three monitors. Internet reports on the Eyefinity technology have ranged from “greatest thing since sliced bread” to “buggy, doesn’t work”. AMD and ATI took the time in the 5670 press release to also declare that they’ve shipped their 2 millionth DirectX 11-capable GPU.

Of course, that comes as a dig at rival NVIDIA, who’s own consumer DirectX 11 line of graphics card has been severely delayed and pushed back to March 2010. If you’re interested in purchasing the new ATI Radeon HD 5670 card, it should start hitting your favorite computer parts supplier soon, with a sub-$100 price.